CODEWITHSUNDEEP
wkhtmltopdf
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Reputation: 39

Internal Links Not Working Convert .HTM to .pdf

I am trying to convert an .htm file from the SEC website to a .pdf and have the internal links work. I am successfully converting to .pdf using wkhtmltopdf, but all the internal links point me back to the first page.

wkhtmltopdf https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594617/000119312514117433/d640354ds1a.htm test.pdf

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1206

Answers (1)

cody
cody

Reputation: 11157

It looks like there's an issue with wkhtmltopdf dealing with anchor tags that have no content. There's a PR that was opened in 2017 to resolve it, but it remains open.

As it turns out, your document does indeed have empty anchor tags, so that's probably the root cause:

<A NAME="toc640354_15"></A>

I would suggest using chrome to produce the pdf, with its --headless and --print-to-pdf flags. From your chrome installation directory, do:

chrome.exe --headless --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf="C:\path\to\file.pdf" https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594617/000119312514117433/d640354ds1a.htm

Make sure you specify an absolute path to the output file or it doesn't seem to work, for whatever reason. The command will immediately return without any output or indication of success. Give it a few seconds to retrieve, render and write the file.

I tested with your document, and the links work perfectly.

Upvotes: 2

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